After takin' a swig o' grog, Joe Potter belched out this bit o' wisdom:

> Some interesting opinions in this article.
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20...J5bVZaKMYjtBAF
>
> San Francisco - Linux is enjoying growth, with a contingent of devotees too
> large to be called a cult following at this point. Solaris, meanwhile, has
> thrived as a longstanding, primary Unix platform geared to enterprises. But
> with Linux the object of all the buzz in the industry, can Sun's rival
> Solaris Unix OS hang on, or is it destined to be displaced by Linux
> altogether?
>
> The case for Solaris's demise
> Sun officials believe the 16-year-old Solaris platform remains a pivotal,
> innovative platform. But at the Linux Foundation, there is a no-conciliatory
> stance; the attitude there is to tell Solaris and Sun to move out of the
> way. "The future is Linux and Microsoft Windows," says foundation Executive
> Director Jim Zemlin. "It is not Unix or Solaris."

Sort of a public troll article (trolling both sides ).

One anecdote from the article:

Gracenote, which provides a media recognition and metadata service
for MP3 users (the CDDB database familiar to iTunes users), agrees.
"We found the threading model in Linux was problematic. You get to a
certain number of concurrent threads and the OS just slows way down,"
says Matthew Leeds, vice president of operations at Gracenote.??
Solaris "just works for us."

And I've seen streams managed by a Solaris box. But many servers use
Linux. The anecdote makes me wonder if the guy has tried a
custom-configured 2.6 kernel.

--
All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that
makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and
an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
-- Samuel Beckett

"Chris Ahlstrom" wrote in message
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> After takin' a swig o' grog, Joe Potter belched out this bit o' wisdom:
>
>> Some interesting opinions in this article.
>>
>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20...J5bVZaKMYjtBAF
>>
>> San Francisco - Linux is enjoying growth, with a contingent of devotees
>> too
>> large to be called a cult following at this point. Solaris, meanwhile,
>> has
>> thrived as a longstanding, primary Unix platform geared to enterprises.
>> But
>> with Linux the object of all the buzz in the industry, can Sun's rival
>> Solaris Unix OS hang on, or is it destined to be displaced by Linux
>> altogether?
>>
>> The case for Solaris's demise
>> Sun officials believe the 16-year-old Solaris platform remains a pivotal,
>> innovative platform. But at the Linux Foundation, there is a
>> no-conciliatory
>> stance; the attitude there is to tell Solaris and Sun to move out of the
>> way. "The future is Linux and Microsoft Windows," says foundation
>> Executive
>> Director Jim Zemlin. "It is not Unix or Solaris."
>
> Sort of a public troll article (trolling both sides ).

It's actually neither side. To me it's just an OS - not a family member.


> One anecdote from the article:
>
> Gracenote, which provides a media recognition and metadata service
> for MP3 users (the CDDB database familiar to iTunes users), agrees.
> "We found the threading model in Linux was problematic. You get to a
> certain number of concurrent threads and the OS just slows way down,"
> says Matthew Leeds, vice president of operations at Gracenote.??
> Solaris "just works for us."

I don't know what the timeline was for his quot about the Linux threading
model but I know that Redhat 3.x was absolutely terrible when it came to
threading. It was all fixed in RH 4.x but if Gracenot used RH3 then I could
understand why they feel this way.


> And I've seen streams managed by a Solaris box. But many servers use
> Linux. The anecdote makes me wonder if the guy has tried a
> custom-configured 2.6 kernel.

IMO both Solaris and Linux are capable right now. Threading, virtual memory
and just about everything else is comparable on both OSs. I'd give a slight
overall lead to Solaris because of support for Zones but the gap, if there
is a gap, is being closed rapidly by Linux. In 3-5 years I think that Linux
will have an advantage over Solaris in every significant area.

>
> --
> All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that
> makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and
> an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
> -- Samuel Beckett

Verily I say unto thee, that Chris Ahlstrom spake thusly:
> After takin' a swig o' grog, Joe Potter belched out this bit o'
> wisdom:

>> "The future is Linux and Microsoft Windows," says foundation
>> Executive Director Jim Zemlin. "It is not Unix or Solaris."

I've never liked Slowlaris, mainly because of that abomination called
the CDDL, and I even wrote a less than stellar review of it once, but
I'd hate to see it disappear completely. Every platform yields *some*
worthy innovations (with the possible exception of Windows), and it's
good to have that diversity to keep the momentum of technology going.

> And I've seen streams managed by a Solaris box. But many servers use
> Linux. The anecdote makes me wonder if the guy has tried a
> custom-configured 2.6 kernel.

Given Gracenote's attitudes and methods[*], I'd imagine they're the
kind of people who spit at the mere mention of Free Software, much less
revel in the joys of having the freedom to customise one's own kernel.
[*] http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/02/1955245

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